The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Amid ongoing recruitment | Iranian-backed militias bring in new reinforcement to military base opposite SDF-held areas in eastern Aleppo

Iranian-backed militias in regime-controlled areas continue recruiting more young and adult Syrian men, exploiting the disastrous living conditions throughout Syria manifested in the lack of job opportunities and prohibitively high prices of essential products.

 

Meanwhile, recruitment operations by the Afghan Liwaa Fatemiyoun tops the events in east Aleppo countryside where the militia offer its recruits financial incentives and other prerogatives, so that they do not join Russian-backed formations.

 

According to SOHR sources, the number of people joined Iranian-backed militias in the eastern countryside of Aleppo since the beginning of escalating recruitment operations in February 2021 has exceeded 2,700. These operations, which are carried out by spiritual figures and offices offering financial incentives, are concentrated in the areas of Maskanah, Al-Sfirah, Deir Hafer and other towns and villages in eastern Aleppo.

 

SOHR sources have also reported that Iranian-backed militias have brought in new military reinforcement to their base in Habbouba village between the villages of Al-Khafsa and Maskanah, east of Aleppo. It is worth noting that the base was established recently on Euphrates river bank, opposite to SDF-controlled areas on the other bank.

 

SOHR, as a human rights organisation, renews its call for the expulsion of foreign powers from Syrian territory, mainly Russian and Iranian forces, and affirms that Syria’s resources and wealth belong only to the Syrian people, and they must not be the preserve of a foreign State, Bashar Al-Assad regime or any other group in Syria.